Explain Why Was It Difficult To Settle In Charles Town
Why Was it Difficult to Settle in Charleston?
Why was it difficult to settle in Charles Town? It was hard to settle in Charles Town because of the geography, the competition with the natives for natural resources, and diseases like smallpox. There is also shortages of food, supplies, men, harsher weather, and new threatening animals. The English settlers had to deal with problems, such as finding a place to settle, growing crops, fighting with the natives, and disease. Geography was one reason why settling in Charles Town was difficult. According to the map on document A, the cartographer, or map maker would have trouble getting the landscape accurate, because compared to maps nowadays, those maps would be inaccurate. There seems to be a lot of natural resources like trees, grass, and …show more content…
Water can be both an advantage and a disadvantage. Some advantages would be that there would be enough to drink, you could go fishing, and the water provides transportation. The disadvantages with having water close to where you lived would be that the crops could get flooded, your house might flood, and the area around the water could flood to. It would be difficult to to settle in Charles Town because the maps were untrustworthy, grow crops because the land in some parts were rockey, and to build a house on the rocky land. Natural Resources was the second reason why it was hard to settle in Charles Town. The land was flat and some of it was already cleared by the Indians. The land that was already cleared would be most desirable to the colonists, because the work to clear it was already done. There was a lot of space for a pasturage, a pasturage was a place where you could place your cattle. The pasturage was next to a riverbank, to the cattle can get water when the wanted to. According to document B, the land was more beautiful than a work of art. This means that there is wide open plains, fine savannahs, and there are natural lawns. The
Why was it difficult to settle in Charles Town? It was hard to settle in Charles Town because of the geography, the competition with the natives for natural resources, and diseases like smallpox. There is also shortages of food, supplies, men, harsher weather, and new threatening animals. The English settlers had to deal with problems, such as finding a place to settle, growing crops, fighting with the natives, and disease. Geography was one reason why settling in Charles Town was difficult. According to the map on document A, the cartographer, or map maker would have trouble getting the landscape accurate, because compared to maps nowadays, those maps would be inaccurate. There seems to be a lot of natural resources like trees, grass, and …show more content…
Water can be both an advantage and a disadvantage. Some advantages would be that there would be enough to drink, you could go fishing, and the water provides transportation. The disadvantages with having water close to where you lived would be that the crops could get flooded, your house might flood, and the area around the water could flood to. It would be difficult to to settle in Charles Town because the maps were untrustworthy, grow crops because the land in some parts were rockey, and to build a house on the rocky land. Natural Resources was the second reason why it was hard to settle in Charles Town. The land was flat and some of it was already cleared by the Indians. The land that was already cleared would be most desirable to the colonists, because the work to clear it was already done. There was a lot of space for a pasturage, a pasturage was a place where you could place your cattle. The pasturage was next to a riverbank, to the cattle can get water when the wanted to. According to document B, the land was more beautiful than a work of art. This means that there is wide open plains, fine savannahs, and there are natural lawns. The